Installing VirtualBox on Linux (CentOS & Ubuntu)

VirtualBox is a free and open-source, general purpose full hypervisor created for x86 bit architecture computers. It is available for installation on a number of operating systems, like Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris etc.

We can use VirtualBox to install & use operating over the currently installed OS i.e. it can load a number of OS over the currently installed one. We can than start, pause or shutdown the installed OS with VirtualBox.

It supports both software as well as hardware based visualization ( for 64 bit support). In this tutorial, we will learn to install VirtualBox on linux machines ( CentOS & Ubuntu).

VirtualBox installation requires building of the Kernel modules. So before we move ahead with the virtualbox installation, we will install the DKMS package along with some other development tools from EPEL repository ,